After OBBA businesses can no longer deduct the expenses of building elaborate mechanical puzzle rooms.

Infowars/Onion combo logo in rainbow saying “I support the onion’s hostile media takeover.”

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

Banana costumes just flying off the shelves these days.

"Let's name our high-end home security company after a villain who was destroyed when he neglected to secure his home base. The text should be VERY explicit that his arrogance blinded him to the threat and left him exposed to ruin."

Thanks for reminding me that I'm past due for a rewatch.

It is also coming out right now, in the distant future, and at all other moments in other time simultaneously.

Interpreting the Constitution is too big a job to leave to nine hand-picked partisan operatives.

Break Up the Big Court The federal court suffers simultaneously from lawless leadership and chronic understaffing. Let's fix both problems at once.

Let's break up the Court entirely and use random panels of Circuit Court judges to decide SCOTUS cases. Interpreting the Constitution is too big a job to leave to nine hand-picked partisan operatives.

www.liberalcurrents.com/break-up-the...

Terrific essay. This is exactly the sort of bold, imaginative thinking that Democrats will need if they're going to liberate the Constitution from the Roberts gang.

The development plan for rural America is "we are going to build abundant housing in the cities so anyone who wants to get out of the sticks and build a new life can afford to do so."

Not sure if this leads to a SCOTUS of autistic philosopher-kings rendering judgments from an ivory tower or a SCOTUS of hermetically-sealed, 120 Days of Sodom-style degenerates. Maybe both?

We don't have to "ally" with any of these people, we can just let them tear each other apart.

Rust Cohle, parenting influencer.

This is a great scene because it gets Superman completely wrong, but it's exactly how a guy like Bill would get Superman wrong.

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly

Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

Astro City's Samaritan also ranks up there with one of the best Superman stories. The most powerful guy in the world, struggling to bear the weight of his (self-imposed) responsibilities.

If they can cause an energy crisis and significant U.S. civilian or military casualties (two things that are plausibly within their power), who knows what happens next?

I think for the Iranians to credibly establish political deterrence they would need to bring about Ameromaidan or civil war in the U.S. I also think those would be hard but not impossible outcomes for them to achieve.

"Fascism cannot be appeased; this is a core assertion of resistance liberalism."

Good overview here of the new anti-Trump counter-mobilization and the deeper forces driving it:

If this case is the vehicle SCOTUS uses to overturn NY Times v Sullivan I am going to become the Joker.

Happy Birthday to the late great William Holden, born William Franklin Beedle Jr. 108 years ago today

Yeah, that's the facial expression of a guy riding a hedgehog bareback.

The boys are back in town

Illustration based on the Harlan Ellison short story, I Have No Mount and I Must Scream. A monitor with the word 'HATE' blaring across its face uses its dangling wires and technology to entrap and crush the earth.

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

The commissars aren't the main problem with the trillion-dollar brain poison companies. We need Section 230 reform to cripple their business model.

I still remain fond of that story (a professional arsonist is hired to torch a pizza place, only to discover that something darker than insurance fraud is going on in the basement) but alas, that whole subgenre blossomed and died like a beautiful flower. Maybe for a collection someday. Back to work!

Oh jeez, what a terrific theme. Grappling with whether to submit my old "pizza horror" story from the vaults or work up something new...